Little Mix reveal ‘Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys are our fans’ as they pose in sexy new shoot for Fault magazine

Little Mix appear in the new issue of Fault Magazine (Picture: Benjamin Johnson)

Little Mix may receive praise from fans and critics alike, but were most overwhelmed by positive feedback when they were praised by their idols, the Spice Girls.

‘The Spice Girls have been really supportive of us, which is amazing because they were the best girl band in the world and we always looked up to them when we were younger,’ Perrie Edwards, 20 gushed while discussing the bands celebrity fans, adding: ‘To have their backing and their support is one of the best feelings ever.’

But the band also count some famous boys in their fan group – and not just the One Direction lads.

‘The Backstreet Boys tweeted about how they loved our album,’ Jade Thirlwall, 21, revealed, with 22-year-old Jesy Nelson adding they could give All Saints – who are to tour with the BSBs this spring – a run for their money, by revealing: ‘They said they wanted to go on tour with us!’

The girls appear in the new issue of Fault magazine – on sale today – discussing their career highlights and achievements to date.

The ladies – which include 22-year-old Leigh-Anne Pinnock – smashed the record set by their idols the Spice Girls when their debut album, DNA, became the highest entering debut album from a girl group in the USA when it hit number four in the Billboard 200 in June last year.